In-Person
At our Writers’ Conference in November, Valeria Vescina offered to organise regular meetings for writers who reside in cantons distant from Geneva and who therefore can’t easily attend events there.The next in-person sessions will take place on Sunday 7 June from 11h-16h in Luzern. The cost of the event is TBD and will be announced closer to the date. Thank you to Valeria for her proactivity in building community! When? Sunday 7 June Where? Luzern FOR GWG MEMBERS ONLY! Cost: TBD Who is the leader? Valeria Vescina is an author, reviewer and creative-writing tutor. from Puglia (Italy). She was educated in Switzerland and the UK, and lived in London most of her life, before settling back in Switzerland. After a successful career in management, she gained an MA in Creative & Life Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her first novel, "That Summer in Puglia" (Eyewear Publishing), was launched at the FTWeekend Oxford Literary Festival 2018 and has had three print runs. She has just finished my second book, "Habit of Disobedience", a tale inspired by real-life events in sixteenth-century Southern Italy. Her short story "Pianissimo" appearead on the Royal Philharmonic Society’s website; "The Bonfire" was the runner-up in a Cazart flash fiction competition; "Accidental Musicians" featured at The Vortex’s ‘Words & Jazz’. She also organizes writing retreats in the Bernese Oberland.
At our Writers’ Conference in November, Valeria Vescina offered to organise regular meetings for writers who reside in cantons distant from Geneva and who therefore can’t easily attend events there.
The cost of the event is TBD and will be announced closer to the date.
Thank you to Valeria for her proactivity in building community!
When? Sunday 7 June
Where? Luzern
FOR GWG MEMBERS ONLY!
Cost: TBD
Who is the leader?
Valeria Vescina is an author, reviewer and creative-writing tutor. from Puglia (Italy). She was educated in Switzerland and the UK, and lived in London most of her life, before settling back in Switzerland.
After a successful career in management, she gained an MA in Creative & Life Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Her first novel, "That Summer in Puglia" (Eyewear Publishing), was launched at the FTWeekend Oxford Literary Festival 2018 and has had three print runs. She has just finished my second book, "Habit of Disobedience", a tale inspired by real-life events in sixteenth-century Southern Italy. Her short story "Pianissimo" appearead on the Royal Philharmonic Society’s website; "The Bonfire" was the runner-up in a Cazart flash fiction competition; "Accidental Musicians" featured at The Vortex’s ‘Words & Jazz’.
She also organizes writing retreats in the Bernese Oberland.
